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Germany: ISIS 10 years in prison for the death of a Yazidi girl
30-year-old Jennifer Wenish was convicted of crimes against humanity, in one of the first trials in the world to deal with the Yazidi genocide.
She was married to an ISIS member, and did nothing when he punished a Yazidi "slave" and let her die of thirst in the scorching heat.
"They make me a damn goat of everything that happened under ISIS," she claimed
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Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 10:57
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A court in Munich yesterday (Monday) sentenced a civilian who joined ISIS to ten years in prison and was convicted of crimes against humanity after leaving a five-year-old Yazidi "slave" to die of thirst in Iraq.
The conviction of 30-year-old Jennifer Wenish for crimes related to the Yazidi genocide is one of the first in the world.
Wenisch was convicted of "two crimes against humanity in the form of bondage," aiding and abetting the girl's death for failing to provide assistance and membership in a terrorist organization.
She and her husband, an ISIS fighter, "purchased" a Yazidi woman and girl as slaves and held them captive while living in Mosul in 2015, when it was controlled by the "Islamic State."
"After the girl became ill and wet her mattress, the defendant's husband chained her outside as punishment and let her die in agony of thirst in the scorching heat," prosecutors said at the trial, seeking to be sentenced to life in prison.
"The defendant allowed her husband to do so and did nothing to save the girl."
The trial lasted two and a half years due to delays related to the corona plague and other factors.
Wenish's husband, Taha al-Jumieli, is also facing a separate trial in Frankfurt.
His sentence will be handed down at the end of next month.
Nora, the girl's mother, testified at length during trials in Munich and Frankfurt about her daughter's suffering.
The defense argued that the mother's testimony was unreliable and that there was no evidence that the girl, who was taken to the hospital after the incident, did die.
Wenish's lawyers sought to serve a two-year suspended sentence for supporting a terrorist organization.
When asked during the trial that she did not save the girl, Wenisch claimed that she "feared" that her husband would "push her or lock her up."
At the end of the trial, she claimed that "she is being made a scapegoat for everything that happened under ISIS."
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According to media reports, she converted to Islam in 2013 and traveled to Syria and Iraq via Turkey a year later, joining ISIS. She was drafted in mid-2015 into the jihadist organization's moral police and patrolled the parks in Fallujah and Mosul that were under his control. She was armed with a Kalashnikov, a pistol and an explosive belt, and her mission was to enforce the dress code, public behavior and the ban on alcohol and tobacco consumption.
In January 2016 Wenisch visited the German Embassy in Ankara to apply for new identity cards. When she left the place, she was arrested and extradited to Germany a few days later.
Its trial, which began in April 2019, is one of the first legal proceedings in the world to discuss ISIS's cruel treatment of Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking minority living mainly in northern Iraq. Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, who was involved in the campaign to recognize ISIS crimes against the Yazidis as genocide, was part of the legal team that represented the Yazidi girl's mother.
Germany has prosecuted several German and foreign citizens for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed outside the country, using a universal judicial law that allows serious crimes to be prosecuted even if they were committed in a foreign country.
Few of those defendants were women.
Last November, a German woman, identified as Nordan G.
She was charged with crimes against humanity allegedly committed while living in Syria as an ISIS member.
A month earlier, a German court had sentenced a rapper jihadist to the German-Tunisian wife of three and a half years for her involvement in the enslavement of a Yazidi girl in Syria.
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